You are right, Prof Cole, "right wingnuts" shouldn't generalize about Egyptians based on this one incident. And they don't have to!
Sexual harassment of women in Cairo has been prominently reported in the media FOR MANY YEARS even before the assault on Logan. Are you just so keen to denounce anything that "right wingers", even when correct? (Akin to cutting off your nose to spite your face?)
Or have you seriously missed all kinds of reports, such as these? (all prior to Logan's attack):
Prof Cole wrote "What I can’t understand is, if the American Right Wing were correct that George W. Bush was ‘right’ in trying to kick start democracy in the Middle East by invading and occupying it, then why would it be necessary for people to demonstrate and burn government buildings in… Iraq?"
This is a non-sequitor. The Americans didn't elect Maliki, the Iraqi people did, and now they are protesting against him. Right now, protests are running wild in the USA, in the streets of Wisconsin. Does that mean the USA isn't ready for democracy?
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You are right, Prof Cole, "right wingnuts" shouldn't generalize about Egyptians based on this one incident. And they don't have to!
Sexual harassment of women in Cairo has been prominently reported in the media FOR MANY YEARS even before the assault on Logan. Are you just so keen to denounce anything that "right wingers", even when correct? (Akin to cutting off your nose to spite your face?)
Or have you seriously missed all kinds of reports, such as these? (all prior to Logan's attack):
link to csmonitor.com
link to topics.blogs.nytimes.com
link to weekly.ahram.org.eg
link to news.bbc.co.uk
Hank,
Prof Cole was implying that the "American right wing" were wrong and that Iraqis were not ready for Democracy because of the protests going on now.
Prof Cole wrote "What I can’t understand is, if the American Right Wing were correct that George W. Bush was ‘right’ in trying to kick start democracy in the Middle East by invading and occupying it, then why would it be necessary for people to demonstrate and burn government buildings in… Iraq?"
This is a non-sequitor. The Americans didn't elect Maliki, the Iraqi people did, and now they are protesting against him. Right now, protests are running wild in the USA, in the streets of Wisconsin. Does that mean the USA isn't ready for democracy?
You mean like Senator Majority leader Harry Reid, a DEMOCRAT, who also opposes the Mosque?
How could his page have been altered? Isn't Michael Enright currently in custody? Or do people in jail now have access to Facebook?